"When speaking not to gesticulate with the hand; for that is like a madman."

"Fran Lebowitz. Una vita a New York"

"On those shoulders of the garden, August’s unkempt and harridan luxuriance had expanded into silent hollows…"

"With Brexit the very best deal they can get is worse than what we've got now."

"It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in doze…"

"And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing a…"

"The Bodo skull and the Kaprina and Shanidar Neandertal skeletons raise the possibility that two distinct, n…"